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Land at Bell Intake, High Dam, Finsthwaite, Ulverston

7/2025/5158AmendmentRefused
Discharge / amendments

Refused on 5 June 2026

Proposal

Change of use of the land from use as agriculture to use as a public car park with onsite food and drink sales and associated operational development consisting of the laying of crushed stone to form a hard surface and the erection of a fence and gate.

Received
25 March 2025
Council
Lake District
Ward
Coniston and Hawkshead Ward
  1. Received25 Mar
  2. Validated6 May
  3. Consult.
  4. Target4 May
  5. Decided5 Jun

Decided in 395 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at Land at Bell Intake, High Dam, Finsthwaite, Ulverston. Lake District has handled 309 applications of this type. This one was decided in 437 days, 54 weeks longer than Lake District's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 92 applications across Coniston and Hawkshead Ward.

74% of amendment applications at Lake District were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 8 weeks (median).

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Application details

Application type
Amendment
Scale / size
Medium
Parish
Colton
District
South Lakeland

Planning application dates

Date validated
6 May 2025
Target decision date
4 May 2031

Planning decision

Statutory period
2189 days

Additional information

UPRN
MAN000000000006246
Documents
15

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.

Also checked, none recorded (22)

flood storage areas, conservation areas, listed buildings, Article 4 directions, tree preservation orders, green belt, scheduled monuments, World Heritage Site buffer zones, registered parks and gardens, registered battlefields, Heritage at Risk entries, nutrient neutrality catchments, National Landscapes, SSSIs, Special Areas of Conservation, Special Protection Areas, Ramsar sites, ancient woodland, national nature reserves, local nature reserves, heritage coasts and brownfield registers.

A guide only, from official open data; it is not a planning search. Flood zones cover rivers and sea, not surface water.

Data © Crown copyright and others · sources and licences

Contains public sector information from planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG and local planning authorities), licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

© Historic England 2026. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. The Historic England GIS Data contained in this material was obtained on 2026-11-03. The most publicly available up to date Historic England GIS Data can be obtained from HistoricEngland.org.uk.

© Natural England copyright. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2026. All rights reserved. Flood Map for Planning, Open Government Licence v3.0.

Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v.3.0. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

Source: Lake District

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